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Evil: Quotations from Burning Words

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil; I observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape it, and with this I begin and end.— JOHN NEWTON

Nothing is to be esteemed evil which God and nature have fixed with eternal sanction.— JEREMY TAYLOR

The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues.— JOHN BASCOM

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.— ST. BERNARD

The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties, Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.— DEAN STANLEY